The company responsible for a computer upgrade that has led to thousands of Californians being cut off from unemployment benefits recently upgraded a state computer system in Massachusetts, where the same thing happened.

The company, Deloitte, refused to answer questions from KCRA 3 on Monday.

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Deloitte upgraded a system that handles unemployment payments in Massachusetts, where hundreds were cut off from those benefits over the summer, according to published reports.

In California, the Employment Development Department said 80,000 were waiting on benefits on Monday alone, though that doesn’t represent the total number of Californians who waited weeks for late benefits since the beginning of September.

EDD has said the problem began as it was installing the upgrade over Labor Day weekend. Deloitte was also behind an upgrade of the state’s court case management system, but as costs rose dramatically, state officials abandoned that project last year.

Staff at EDD have been working overtime to manually fix each of the tens of thousands of accounts at a time that are affected.